Download e-book for kindle: An Introduction to Covariant Quantum Gravity and Asymptotic by Roberto Percacci

This booklet covers fresh advancements within the covariant formula of quantum gravity. built within the Nineteen Sixties via Feynman and DeWitt, by means of the Nineteen Eighties this technique appeared to lead nowhere as a result of perturbative non-renormalizability. the potential of non-perturbative renormalizability or "asymptotic safety", initially steered via Weinberg yet principally overlooked for 2 many years, used to be revived in the direction of the top of the century by means of technical development within the box of the renormalization workforce.